ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Mrs. Richards tenders her sincere thanks to the publishers and poets who have so generously accorded their permission to use copyrighted poems:
To the American Tract Society for "Seeds" and "The Philosopher's Garden," John Oxenham, from Bees in Amber.
To Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. for "The Mocking-Bird," Frank L. Stanton, from Songs of the Soil.
To the Baker & Taylor Co. for "June Rapture" and "The Rose," Angela Morgan, from The Hour has Struck, and Other Poems and Utterance, and Other Poems.
To The Biddle Press for "The Old-fashioned Garden" and "Poppies," John Russell Hayes, from Collected Poems.
To the Bobbs-Merrill Company for "Thoughts fer the Discuraged Farmer," James Whitcomb Riley, from Complete Works.
To Edmund A. Brooks, Minneapolis, for "Daffodils" and "From a Car-Window," Ruth Guthrie Harding, from The Lark went Singing, and Other Poems.
To Messrs. Burns & Oates and to Alice Meynell (Mrs. Wilfrid Meynell) for "To a Daisy" and "The Garden" from Collected Poems; for "Rosa Mystica," Katharine Tynan (Mrs. Henry Albert Hinkson), from The Flower of Peace.
To The Century Co. for "Larkspur," James Oppenheim, from War and Laughter; for "The Tilling," Cale Young Rice, from Trails Sunward; for "The Haunted Garden," Louis Untermeyer, from Challenge.
To Messrs. Constable & Co. for "For These," Edward Thomas (Edward Eastaway), from An Annual of New Poetry.
To Country Life (London) and to Mrs. Gurney personally for "The Lord God planted a Garden" and "A Garden in Venice," by Dorothy Frances Gurney, from Poems.
To Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell Company for "Love planted a Rose," Katharine Lee Bates, from America, and Other Poems; for "An Exile's Garden," Sophie Jewett, from Collected Poems.
To Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons for "The Spring Beauties," Helen Gray Cone, from The Chant of Love, and Other Poems.
To Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. for "In a Garden," Livingston L. Biddle, from The Understanding Hills.
To Messrs. George H. Doran Company for "The Cricket in the Path," "Herb of Grace," and "Rain in the Night," Amelia Josephine Burr, from In Deep Places and Life and Living; for "A Song in a Garden," "Shade," and "The Poplars," Theodosia Garrison, from The Dreamers, and Other Poems; for "Trees," Joyce Kilmer, from Trees, and Other Poems; for "June," Douglas Malloch, from The Woods; for "Where Love is Life," Duncan Campbell Scott, from "The Three Songs" in Lundy's Lane, and Other Poems.
To Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. for "A Prayer," "The Butterfly," and "Before Mary of Magdala came," Edwin Markham, from The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems and The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems.
To Messrs. Duffield & Co. for "The sweet caresses that I gave to you," Elsa Barker, from The Book of Love; for "What heart but fears a fragrance?" ("Zauber Duft"), Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi, from Gabrielle, and Other Poems; for "Spring," Francis Ledwidge, from Songs of the Fields; for "The White Peacock," William Sharp, from Songs and Poems.
To Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. for "The South Wind," Siegfried Sassoon, from The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems; for "The Tree," Evelyn Underhill, from Theophanies.
To Messrs. H. W. Fisher & Co. for "A Dream," "The Autumn Rose," "Fireflies," and "An Evening in Old Japan," Antoinette De Coursey Patterson, from Sonnets and Quatrains and The Son of Merope, and Other Poems.
To Messrs. Harper & Brothers for "Roses in the Subway," Dana Burnet, from Poems; for "The Wild Rose," and "If I were a Fairy," Charles Buxton Going, from Star-Glow and Song; for "The Cardinal-Bird," Arthur Guiterman, from The Laughing Muse; for "Wild Gardens," Ada Foster Murray, from Flowers of the Grass; for "The Message," Helen Hay Whitney, from Sonnets and Songs.
To Hearst's International Library Company for "Stairways and Gardens" and "My Flower-Room," Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from World Voices.
To Mr. William Heinemann for "The Cactus," Laurence Hope, from Stars of the Desert; for "The July Garden," R. E. Vernède, from War Poems, and Other Verses; for "A Garden-Piece," Edmund Gosse, from Collected Poems.
To Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. for "The Cloister Garden at Certosa," Richard Burton, from Poems of Earth's Meaning; for "The Furrow," Padraic Colum, from Wild Earth, and Other Poems; for "The Three Cherry Trees," Walter de la Mare, from The Listeners, and Other Poems; for "A Late Walk," "Asking for Roses," "The Pasture," and "Putting in the Seed," Robert Frost, from A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and A Mountain Interval; for "Joe-Pyeweed," Louis Untermeyer, from These Times.
To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company for "The Blooming of the Rose" and the selection from "Under the Trees," Anna Hempstead Branch, from The Heart of the Road and The Shoes that Danced, and Other Poems; for "Spring Patchwork" and "The Flowerphone," Abbie Farwell Brown, from A Pocketful of Posies and Songs of Sixpence; for "The Morning-Glory" and "Jewel-Weed," Florence Earle Coates, from Collected Poems; for "Nightingales" and "A Breath of Mint," Grace Hazard Conkling, from Afternoons of April; for "The Golden-Rod," Margaret Deland, from The Old Garden, and Other Verses; for "A Roman Garden," Florence Wilkinson Evans, from The Ride Home; for "Cobwebs," Louise Imogen Guiney, from Happy Ending; for "Planting," Robert Livingston, from Murrer and Me; for "Primavera," George Cabot Lodge, from Poems and Dramas; for "Ever the Same," "Charm: To be said in the Sun," and "But we did walk in Eden," Josephine Preston Peabody, from The Singing Leaves and The Singing Man; for "At Isola Bella" ("A White Peacock"), Jessie B. Rittenhouse, from The Door of Dreams; for "The Goldfinch," Odell Shepard, from A Lonely Flute; for "Daisies" and "Witchery," Frank Dempster Sherman, from Poems; for "Grandmother's Gathering Boneset," Edith M. Thomas, from In Sunshine Land.
To Mr. B. W. Huebsch for "Song from 'April,'" Irene Rutherford McLeod, from Songs to Save a Soul.
To Messrs. George W. Jacobs & Co. for "Vestured and veiled with twilight," Rosamund Marriott Watson, from The Heart of a Garden.
To Mr. R. U. Johnson (publisher) for "Como in April," Robert Underwood Johnson, from Collected Poems.
To Mr. Mitchell Kennerley for "A Song to Belinda," Theodosia Garrison, from Earth Cry; for "In a Garden," Horace Holley, from Divinations and Creations; for "Afternoon on a Hill," "The End of Summer," and "A Little Ghost," Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Renascence, and Other Poems; for "Welcome," John Curtis Underwood, from Processionals; for "Ære Perennius," Charles Hanson Towne, from A Quiet Singer.
To Mr. Alfred A. Knopf for "The Rain" and "The Ways of Time," William H. Davies, from Collected Poems.
To The John Lane Company (New York) for "Loveliest of Trees," A. E. Housman, from A Shropshire Lad; for "May is building her House," and "I meant to do my work to-day," Richard Le Gallienne, from The Lonely Dancer; for "The Joy of the Springtime," and "The Time of Roses," Sarojini Naidu, from The Bird of Time and The Broken Wing; for "Heart's Garden," Norreys Jephson O'Conor, from Celtic Memories; for "Serenade," Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, from The Lamp of Poor Souls; for "There is Strength in the Soil," Arthur Stringer, from Open Water; for "Midsummer blooms within our quiet garden ways," "It was June in the garden," and "Within the garden there is healthfulness," Emile Verhaeren, from The Sunlit Hours and Afternoon; for "In a Garden of Granada," Thomas Walsh, from Gardens Overseas; for "The Garden of Mnemosyne," Rosamund Marriott Watson, from Collected Poems; for "Eden-Hunger," William Watson, from Retrogression, and Other Poems; for "Spring Planting," Helen Hay Whitney, from Herbs and Apples.
To Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. for "To a Weed," Gertrude Hall, from The Age of Fairy Gold; for "The Green o' the Spring," Denis A. McCarthy, from Voices from Erin; for "The Baby's Valentine," Laura E. Richards, from In my Nursery.
To Messrs. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company for "God's Garden," Richard Burton, from Dumb in June.
To Mr. David McKay for "The Blossomy Barrow" and "Da Thief," Thomas Augustine Daly, from Madrigali; for "A Soft Day," W. M. Letts, from Songs from Leinster.
To The Macmillan Company for "Old Homes," Madison Cawein, from Poems; for "Up a Hill and a Hill," Fannie Stearns Davis, from Myself and I; for "In the Womb," A. E. (George William Russell), from Collected Poems; for "To the Sweetwilliam," Norman Gale, from Collected Poems; for "Roses," Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, from Battle, and Other Poems; for "Rest at Noon" and "The Hummingbird," Hermann Hagedorn, from Poems and Ballads; for "The Mystery," Ralph Hodgson, from Poems; for "The Dandelion" and "With a Rose, to Brunhilde," Vachel Lindsay, from General William Booth enters into Heaven, and Other Poems and A Handy Guide for Beggars; for "A Tulip Garden," "Fringed Gentians," and "The Fruit Garden Path," Amy Lowell, from Sword Blades and Poppy Seed and The Dome of Many-coloured Glass; for "It may be so: but let the unknown be" and "Drop me the Seed," John Masefield, from Lollingdon Downs, and Other Poems; for "Samuel Gardner," Edgar Lee Masters, from The Spoon River Anthology; for "Go down to Kew in lilac-time" (selection from "The Barrel-Organ"), Alfred Noyes, from Poems; for "The Messenger," James Stephens, from Songs from the Clay; for "The Champa Flower" and "The Flower-School," Rabindranath Tagore, from The Crescent Moon; for "Indian Summer," "Alchemy," "The Fountain," "Barter," and "Wood Song," Sara Teasdale, from Rivers to the Sea and Love Songs; for "The Message," George Edward Woodberry, from Poems; for "The Song of Wandering Aengus," W. B. Yeats, from Poems.
To Mr. Elkin Mathews and to Mr. Rowland Thirlmere personally for "A Shower," from Polyclitus, and Other Poems.
To the Manas Press, Rochester, N.Y., for "November Night" and "Arbutus," Adelaide Crapsey, from Verses.
To Messrs. John P. Morton & Co., Louisville, Ky., for "Conscience," Margaret Steele Anderson, from The Flame in the Wind.
To Mr. Thomas Bird Mosher for "Beyond," "As in a Rose-Jar," and "My soul is like a garden-close," Thomas S. Jones, Jr., from The Voice in the Silence and The Rose-Jar; for "A Seller of Herbs," "The Garden at Bemerton," and "April Weather," Lizette Woodworth Reese, from A Handful of Lavender; for "Frost To-night," Edith M. Thomas, from The Flower from the Ashes; for "In an Oxford Garden" and "Old Gardens," Arthur Upson, from Octaves in an Oxford Garden and Collected Poems.
To Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons for "In an Old Garden," Madison Cawein, from Moods and Melodies; for "If I could dig like a Rabbit," Rose Strong Hubbell, from If I could Fly; for "The Anxious Farmer," Burges Johnson, from Rhymes of Home; for "In an August Garden," "Amiel's Garden," and "The Garden," Gertrude Huntington McGiffert, from A Florentine Cycle.
To The Reilly & Britton Co. for "Results and Roses," Edgar A. Guest, from Heap o' Livin'.
To Mr. Grant Richards for "Loveliest of Trees," A. E. Housman, from A Shropshire Lad.
To Mr. A. M. Robertson (San Francisco) for "How many flowers are gently met," George Sterling, from The Testimony of the Sun, and Other Poems.
To Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for "Miracle," L. H. Bailey, from Wind and Weather; for "Four O'Clocks" and "Homesick," Julia C. R. Dorr, from Poems and Last Poems; for "Tell-Tale," Oliver Herford, from Overheard in a Garden; for "In the Garden" and "The Deserted Garden," Pai Ta-Shun (Frederick Peterson), from Chinese Lyrics (Kelly & Walsh, Hongkong); for "The Child in the Garden," Henry van Dyke, from Collected Poems.
To Messrs. Sherman, French & Co. for "The Trees," Samuel Valentine Cole, from The Great Gray King, and Other Poems; for "Her Garden," Eldredge Denison, from Ballads and Lyrics; for "Moth-Flowers," Jeanne Robert Foster, from Wild Apples; for "The Little God," Katharine Howard, from The Little God, and Other Poems; for "Cloud and Flower," Agnes Lee, from The Sharing, and Other Poems; for "The Dials" and "The Secret," Arthur Wallace Peach, from The Hill Trails; for "A Garden Prayer" and "In Memory's Garden," Thomas Walsh, from The Prison Ships, and Other Poems; for "Prayer" and "With memories and odors," John Hall Wheelock, from Love and Liberation.
To Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson for "A Song of Fairies," by Elizabeth Kirby, from The Bridegroom.
To Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. for "Trees," "The Garden of Dreams," and "An April Morning," Bliss Carman, from April Airs; for "The Whisper of Earth," Edward J. O'Brien, from White Fountains; for "The Dews" and "Clover," John Banister Tabb, from Lyrics.
To Messrs. Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, for "The Golden Bowl," Mary McMillan, from The Little Golden Fountain, and Other Poems.
To Messrs. Frederick A. Stokes Company for "A Mocking-Bird" and "The Early Gods," Witter Bynner, from Grenstone Poems; for "The Proud Vegetables" and "Iris Flowers," Mary McNeil Fenollosa, from Blossoms from a Japanese Garden.
To Mr. T. Fisher Unwin for "Autumnal," Richard Middleton, from Poems and Songs.
To Messrs. James T. White & Co. for "Flowers of June," James Terry White, from A Garden of Remembrance; for "Song of the Weary Traveller," Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff, from Narcissus, and Other Poems.
To the Atlantic Monthly for "April Rain," Conrad Aiken; for "Yellow Warblers," Katharine Lee Bates; for "Safe," Robert Haven Schauffler; for "The Lilies," George Edward Woodberry.
To the Century Magazine for "Order," Paul Scott Mowrer.
To the Christian Science Monitor for "Family Trees," Douglas Malloch.
To the Churchman for "The Faithless Flowers," Margaret Widdemer.
To Contemporary Verse for "The Road to the Pool," Grace Hazard Conkling; for "The Night-Moth," Marion Couthouy Smith.
To the Craftsman for "The Scissors-Man," Grace Hazard Conkling.
To the Delineator for "In my Mother's Garden," Margaret Widdemer.
To Everybody's Magazine for "Years Afterward," Nancy Byrd Turner.
To Harper's Monthly Magazine for "Progress," Charlotte Becker; for "Oh, tell me how my garden grows," Mildred Howells; for "A Song for Winter," Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer.
To the Independent for "Blind," Harry Kemp; for "The Dusty Hour-Glass," Amy Lowell; for "A Midsummer Garden," Clinton Scollard.
To the Los Angeles Graphic for "A White Iris," Pauline B. Barrington.
To Lyric for "July Midnight," Amy Lowell.
To Munsey's Magazine for "A Puritan Lady's Garden," Sarah N. Cleghorn; for "Spring Song," William Griffith; for "The Fountain," Harry Kemp.
To Mushrooms, published by The John Marshall Company, for "Idealists," Alfred Kreymborg.
To Others: A Magazine of New Verse for "Reflections" ("Chinoiseries"), Amy Lowell; for "Lord, I ask a Garden," R. Arevalo Martinez.
To the New York Sun for "A Colonial Garden," James B. Kenyon.
To the New York Times for "Grace for Gardens," Louise Driscoll; for "The Welcome," Arthur Powell.
To Poetry: A Magazine of Verse for "Spring Song," Hilda Conkling; for "A Lady of the Snows," Harriet Monroe; for "The Magnolia," José Santos Chocano, translated by John Pierrepont Rice.
To Punch for "Lavender," W. W. Blair Fish.
To St. Nicholas for "Velvets," Hilda Conkling; for "When Swallows Build," Catherine Parmenter.
To Scribner's Magazine for "Her Garden," Louis Dodge; for "The Path that leads to Nowhere," Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.
To the Touchstone for "Dawn in my Garden," Marguerite Wilkinson.
To the Yale Review and to Mr. Brian Hooker personally for "Ballade of the Dreamland Rose" from Poems; also to the Yale Review for the selection from "Earth," John Hall Wheelock.
Personal acknowledgment is also made to the following poets and individual owners of copyrights:—
To Miss Zoë Akins for "The Snow-Gardens."
To Mr. William Stanley Braithwaite and to Mr. Fletcher personally for "Spring," John Gould Fletcher, printed in the Poetry Review.
To M. G. Brereton for "The Old Brocade" from A Celtic Christmas.
To Miss Abbie Farwell Brown for "The Wall" in manuscript.
To Mrs. Grace Hazard Conkling for "The Rose" in manuscript.
To Mr. Miles M. Dawson for "The Thistle" from Songs of the New Time.
To Violet Fane (Lady Curie) for "To a New Sun-Dial" from Collected Poems.
To Mrs. Mary McNeil Fenollosa for "Birth of the Flowers."
To Mr. Arthur Guiterman for "Tulips" and "Columbines" in manuscript.
To Miss Mary R. Jewett for "Flowers in the Dark," Sarah Orne Jewett, from Verses (privately printed).
To Rev. Arthur Ketchum for "The Spirit of the Birch" in manuscript.
To Miss Hannah Parker Kimball for "Sun, Cardinal, and Corn Flowers" from Soul and Sense.
To Mr. William Lindsey for "Two Roses" from Apples of Istakhar.
To Catherine Markham (Mrs. Edwin Markham) for "A Garden Friend."
To Mr. Lloyd Mifflin for "Draw closer, O ye Trees" from The Flying Nymph, and Other Verse.
To Miss Angela Morgan for "The Awakening" in manuscript.
To E. Nesbit (Mrs. Hubert Bland) for "Baby Seed Song."
To Mr. Shaemas O Sheel for "While April Rain went by" from The Light Feet of Goats (The Franklin Press).
To Mr. Clinton Scollard for "The Crocus Flame," and "Sunflowers," from Ballads Patriotic and Romantic; for "In the Garden-Close at Mezra" and "In an Egyptian Garden" from The Lutes of Morn.
To Mrs. Emily Selinger for "Over the Garden Wall."
To Mrs. May Riley Smith for "Sorrow in a Garden" in manuscript.
To the estate of Frank L. Stanton for "Sweetheart-Lady."
To Mr. Charles Wharton Stork for "Boulders" in manuscript, and for "Color Notes," printed in Lippincott's Magazine.
To Mr. Charles Hanson Towne for "A White Rose."
To Katharine Tynan (Mrs. Henry Albert Hinkson) for "The Choice," published by Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson in The Poems of To-day, an anthology.
To Mr. Frederic A. Whiting for his own poems "A Rose Lover" and "A Wonder Garden" in manuscript and for "Kinfolk" by Kate Whiting Patch.
To Mr. Clement Wood for "Rose-Geranium" from Glad of Earth.
To Mr. Henry A. Wise Wood for "The Joy of a Summer Day."
NOTE
With very few exceptions only the poets who are writing to-day, or who have written within a period of ten years, are represented in this collection; and certain favorite poems peculiarly suited to the spirit of this book which chanced to be included in High Tide may be missed here. G. M. R.